Bipin Joshi and Tamir Nimrodi, the two hostages whose fate in Gaza remains unknown, were not included in the list released by Hamas of the 20 live hostages expected to be freed during Monday’s exchange of hostages held by Hamas and prisoners held by Israel.
Neither Hamas nor Israel issued statements saying the two had died.
In addition to some 1,200 Israelis killed on October 7, 2023, Hamas kidnapped 251 men and women during the terrorist attack. Most were later freed in hostage exchanges in the two years since.
Of the 48 hostages still in Gaza at the time of the new ceasefire agreement, Israeli officials confirmed 26 dead. Twenty other people were believed to be alive at the time and the fate of two people was unknown.
International Committee of the Red Cross vehicles arrive south of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip to receive the second group of hostages expected to be released on October 13, 2025.
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Bipin Joshi, a Nepalese agriculture student who was in Israel to study, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Alumim, according to The Times of Israel.
“We just want him back,” his sister said in August, according to the newspaper. “It’s too much for me and my family.”
Joshi was 22 when he was kidnapped, according to Nepal’s Kathmandu Post.
joshi’s family published images of Joshi on Wednesday they said it was recovered by the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli intelligence officials shared it with the family. The footage was believed to have been filmed in November 2023.
It is unclear exactly when the IDF recovered the images and shared them with the family. The family released a clip of the footage through the Missing Families and Hostages Forum headquarters on Wednesday.
A Red Cross vehicle moves along a road ahead of the expected release of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
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“For many months, these images were under strict censorship. Only recently were we granted permission to publish them,” he said. Joshi the family said in a statement with the video. “It is not easy for us to share publicly, but we are in critical and historic days that will determine the fate of the 48 hostages, whether the living will return to their families and the deceased to a proper burial, or whether we will continue to suffer without closure.”
Tamir Nimrodi was 18 years old when he was kidnapped barefoot and without glasses. according to The Jerusalem Post.
Nimrodi, who had been serving in the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, was transferred from a base near the Erez crossing to the Gaza Strip, according to the Times of Israel.
“He always said that I was his best friend… I pray that I have the opportunity to have moments with him again,” said his mother, Herut Nimrodi. “The emptiness in my heart is indescribable.”
